Get smart: How artificial intelligence is changing our lives

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a real and growing part of our lives. From voice-controlled assistants to online ordering to self driving cars in development, AI is the brains behind computer software. As it improves computers, making them faster and smarter, is this technology a threat? “I wouldn’t see it as a threat, necessarily,” Recode reporter April Glaser told CNBC’s “On the Money” in an interview. laser covers robots, drones and other smart machines for the technology news website. “But artificial intelligence programs do know more than you or I do, particularly when it comes to specific areas.” One example is in medicine, where AI technology is helping doctors recognize cancerous tumors. “If something has artificial intelligence in it that means it has software in it that allows the computer…